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Moran was voted High Technology Legislator of the Year by the Information Technology Industry Council and was voted into the [[AeA|American Electronics Association]] Hall of Fame for his work on avoiding the [[Y2K2000|Year 2000]] crisis and his support of the [[Information Technology|IT Industry]] and defense contractors in [[Northern Virginia]]. He cosponsored failed bills in 2005 to provide the [[Washington, D.C.|District of Columbia]] with [[D.C. voting rights|a House seat]] and to prohibit [[Animal slaughter|slaughter]] of horses.<ref>
{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/2043/cosponsors |author-link=Tom Davis (Virginia politician)|first=Tom|last=Davis|title=To establish the District of Columbia as a Congressional district for purposes of representation in the House of Representatives, and for other purposes. (HR 2043)|publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |date=May 3, 2005|quote=Latest Major Action: 6/6/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/297/cosponsors|author-link=Nick Rahall|first=Nick Joe|last=Rahall II|title=To restore the prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros (H.R.297)|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|date=January 25, 2005|quote=Latest Major Action: 2/7/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.|access-date=November 23, 2019|archive-date=September 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921142510/https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/297/cosponsors|url-status=live}}</ref> [[File:Jim Moran Darfur Protest.gif|upright=1.35|thumb|left|Moran and [[Sheila Jackson Lee]] protesting outside the Sudanese embassy, April 2006]]